Europe Divided
Sanctions Process Revealed Italian Frustration

Italian PM Renzi unloads on Germany in lengthy interview.

New World Disorder
Barack Obama and the Breaking of the UN

After years of the Syrian civil war, the UN is foundering, and putting the President’s foreign policy legacy at risk.

Digital Age Warfare
Iranians Hack US Dam

WSJ reports on a classified 2013 hack of a dam in upstate NY.

Fear and Loathing
A War We Deserve?

The anxiety that so many Americans feel about domestic affairs today is the source of their fear of the Islamic State—not the other way around.

Afghanistan in Peril
Taliban Rising?

The world President Obama is preparing to leave behind him increasingly doesn’t look like the one he promised on the campaign trail in 2008.

Kleptocracy Watch
The Moral Crisis Behind Deutsche Bank’s Russia Scandal

The decline in the willingness of large German companies to observe basic standards of business ethics point toward a moral, rather than merely an institutional, crisis.

State of the Union
Why Polarization Matters

Polarization is more our problem than our politicians’. The success of the nation requires that we, the people, overcome it.

Hail Shale
US Gas Prices Dip Below $2

The national average for a gallon of gas in the U.S. yesterday dropped below $2 for the first time in more than six years.

campus culture wars
POTUS v. PC, Part Three

For the third time this year, President Obama condemned the intolerance exhibited by some leftwing activists on college campuses.

Are you PC?
POST WITHDRAWN: Amsterdam Museum Edits “Offensive” Titles

A major museum has now been infected by the PC bug. What will be next?

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